I’ve written several blog posts documenting the Swiss / Chinese publisher
MDPI’s
practice of publishing junk science, articles that few, if any, legitimate publishers would accept and publish. Now the publisher has outdone itself and published a paper that is a monumental example of pseudo-science. The article’s author is J. Marvin Herndon.

I recently added publisher
MDPI
to my list of questionable publishers, an addition that has caused the publisher to go on the offensive against me and, on the positive side, to address some of its problems.

I have added the Chinese publisher
MDPI
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) to my list of questionable publishers. This is not a decision I have taken lightly. Read the rest of this entry »